Hi,

I have two machines both centos 4.7. When I log in to one of them through Putty(SSH) it has display in color, directories are blue, executables are green, if you edit file in vi comments are one color ... commands other and so on. Really cool I like it. They other machine is just plain monochrome. I can't figure out where is set. I thought .bashrc is place to set stuff like this but ... there are absolutely the same.

Weird thing is that I installed both machines and never did anything like that, so I don't know why they are set different?

Any idea where to check?

You can colourize Bash through certain escape-sequences in your ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile files.

However, what you are referring to is colourized output for "ls".

Do the following when you SSH into the monochrome CentOS machine:
Ta-da! All of your "ls" output will be in colour from now, until forever.

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For color in vim you need to edit /etc/vim/vimrc. Just find the line that says
and uncomment that line (delete the #). If that line is not in the file just add "syntax on" somewhere in /etc/vim/vimrc. You will have to be root to write to this file.

For others who may read this, is there a way to have a custom vimrc for each user? I read somewhere that you could just create a ~/.vimrc but I tried that and it still uses the /etc/vim/vimrc.

Well thing is ... machine that has coloring on, don't have
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$ echo "alias ls='ls --color=auto'" >> ~/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc
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and they both have "syntax on" in vimrc but they still behave different. Where's the catch?

Those two lines were command that you type in at the shell.

All they do, is add the line
to the .bashrc file in the user's home directory and "source" the .bashrc file so the changes take effect immediately - ie. you don't need to log out and log back in.